![]() ![]() ![]() Kremos: The Lost Art of Niso Ramponi, Vols. ![]() as well as the likes of Walt Disney, who was only then able to start releasing many of his studio’s movies in Italy. Besides finding other animation jobs, Ramponi tried his hand at various syndicated newspaper comic strips ( Le Prodezze di Hamedin, Ivo il Primitivo, etc.).īy the late 1940s, Ramponi also found himself in high demand as a movie poster and lobby card artist for both Italian productions. When the producers approved the idea, Fellini immediately pulled in Ramponi and their mutual friend Luigi Giobe to head up the animation team that would work on a short titled, Hello Jeep!Īfter months of work, new producers took over the financing of the Rossellini film, and unfortunately they immediately halted production on the nearly finished cartoon.īut if one opportunity was trampled mid-bloom, others quickly sprung up from the rubble of post-war Rome for the young Ramponi. In 1945, Fellini pitched the idea for an animated short that would accompany Rossellini’s latest production, Rome Open City. Not too long after, Fellini’s friendship with Roberto Rossellini started opening doors for the aspiring filmmaker. soldiers, Ramponi was happy to take part in the enterprise. For a couple of years Ramponi had been chumming around with fellow cartoonist Federico Fellini (seen below), and when the future filmmaker hatched a plan to open the Funny Face Shop to sell caricatures to the occupying U.S. It wasn’t long, however, before he found himself collaborating with another young cartoonist looking for a way to ply their shared trade in the upended capital city. The Allies liberated Italy, but not before bombing the animation facilities in which Ramponi worked, leaving the young Roman artist without a steady job. ![]()
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